Columbus Crew SC took on Orlando City SC from their training facility at Osceola Heritage Park in the Black & Gold’s second scrimmage during this third stage of the preseason in Florida. Just as they did in their last time out, for this match, one group for Crew SC started and played the first 60 minutes, while another group closed the final 30.
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CREW SC LINEUP FOR THE FIRST 60 MINUTES
Evan Bush, Harrison Afful, Waylon Francis (Anthony Samways 35’), Jonathan Mensah, Kevin Molino (Derrick Etienne 35’), Aidan Morris, Darlington Nagbe, Pedro Santos (Isaiah Parente 46’), Josh Williams (Aboubacar Keita 46’), Gyasi Zardes, Lucas Zelarayan
SCORE
Orlando City SC 1, Crew SC 0
CREW SC LINEUP FOR THE LAST 30 MINUTES
Evan Bush, Miguel Berry, Elton Chifamba, Derrick Etienne, Marlon Hairston, Aboubacar Keita, Perry Kitchen, Grant Lillard, Isaiah Parente, Anthony Samways, Bradley Wright-Phillips
SCORE
Orlando City SC 0, Crew SC 0
“Very good performance, I’m extremely pleased,” head coach Caleb Porter said following the scrimmage. “I thought we took big steps forward today and completely dominated the game. Far and away the better team – we made a bad mistake, so we’ll learn from that. We lost focus in a moment, got beat in a transition, so obviously that’s not good, but we’ll correct that for sure. We’ve got to do a bit better, see the ball, be switched on, kick the ball away. Instead, we turn our backs for a second, they run up, the ball is already set for them and it was a quick transition. [For] Orlando, that was the one moment they had, really where we got kind of stunned. For me that was the takeaway, but I feel very good about how we played.”
The Black & Gold return to action for their next scrimmage on Wednesday, March 31, against Minnesota United FC.
